Quotes by Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Dont be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.”

“The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.”

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”

“Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for life. By keeping eyes, mind, and heart open to nature, men, books, experience, and what he gathers, serves him at unexpected moments, in unforeseen”

“New Years eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights”

“To have a quiet mind is to possess ones mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess ones self.”

“Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.”

“In the long run a man becomes what he purposes, and gains for himself what he really desires”

“He strains his conversation through a cigar.”

“Nobody knows of the work it makes/to keep the home together. Nobody knows of the steps it takes/ nobody knows but mother.”

“I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.”

“The death of a mother is the first sorrow wept without her”

“A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive”

“A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium”

“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, its the only thing that ever does”

“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used. So he made up his mind to be cross with his wife about it. But she bore it all like a good patient queen as she was.

I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.