125 Quotes by Myrtle Reed

In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will – before by faith, and afterward by memory.

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you’re not always explaining things.

By day we may deal with the airy superstructure of our emotions, but, at three in the morning, we get down to the foundation. At night the soul claims the right to stand face to face with itself, as before some mirror placed in a pitiless light and, with unsparing eyes, seek the truth.

After the door of a woman’s heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

There isn’t a new sorrow in the world – they’re all old ones – but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

Money may not be your best friend, but it’s the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

Home is a place where we all do as we please – usually regardless of the others.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness – that of understanding.

Silence always gives consent...