“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”

“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”

Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

-Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

-Dinah Maria Mulock Craik