9 Quotes by Mary Mapes Dodge

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

There is an Angel called Charity who often would save our hearts a great deal of trouble if we would but let her in.

So he is my brother, and yours, too, Carl Schummel, for that matter," answered Peter, looking into Carl's eye. "We cannot say what we might have become under other circumstances. We have been bolstered up from evil since the hour we were born. A happy home and good parents might have made that man a fine fellow instead of what he is. God grant that the law may cure and not crush him!

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.

Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn’t doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago...

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I’ll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

I’m as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it’s not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.