absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
Dinah Maria Murlock CraikMoney is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us.
Dinah Maria Murlock CraikOur natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik