Allyson Donnelly Quotes

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

Delicious tears! The heart`s own dew.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life`s bewailing.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o`er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody`s experience ever suits us but our own.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.