112 Quotes by Margaret Deland

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ...

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

by some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed ...

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

War is wicked, beause it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.

weakness is a great bully without knowing it ...