Dinah Mulock Craik Quotes

“Autumn to winter winter into spring. Spring into summer summer into fall - So rolls the changing year and so we change -Motion so swift we know not that we move.”

“God rest ye little children let nothing you affright For Jesus Christ your Saviour was born this happy night Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay When Christ the Child of Nazareth was born on Christmas day.”

“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”

“Silence sweeter is than speech.”

“There never was night that had no morn.”

“One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.”

“Oh the comfort the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words but pouring them all 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 with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

“Human nature is seldom at a loss to find or create an excuse for pursuing the predominant bias of inclination.”

“If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus found remote analogies and relations which others have not considered! Others rarely make these confusions, and proceed by precise analysis.”

“But it may be asked, could a man of real honor give his hand to one woman, while his heart was in the possession of another? In most cases of a similar description this question may be easily answered: in the present one, general conclusions, drawn from received opinions, will probably prove erroneous.”