MARGARET DELAND

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Home is the best place to be sick in.

men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.

Weakness is a great bully without knowing it.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

Anger as well as love casts out fear.

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

... 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.

If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

The insolence of time is like a blow in the face from an unseen enemy.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.

Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.