Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.
Dinah Maria Murlock CraikWhat small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.
Dinah Maria Murlock CraikThere are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.
Dinah Maria Murlock CraikA person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik