There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik More Quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik More Quotes From Dinah Maria Murlock Craik absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik affectiondecayfancy our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik moneyrootscharacter When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik cabinsstylelittles The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik marriedmarriagepeople never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik romancenoble A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik marriageperfectmen the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik worst-timeswaitinglong We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik troubleperfectlong Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik growingmarriagestills We never discover the value of things till we have lost them. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik valueslosslost there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik absolutesweaknesstyranny we are so scornful when we are young! Dinah Maria Murlock Craik youthyoung The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik plansinfiniteworld God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright, Dinah Maria Murlock Craik blockchildrenjesus We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik sacrificeperfectionchildren Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik auntunclesgirl God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik utterancepoetgiving It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik often-iscouragepeople A secret at home is like rocks under tide. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik rockssecrethome The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik thoughts-on-lifeactionlife
