Hamilton Mabie Quotes (9 Quotes)

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

New Year's eve is like every other night there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.

In the long run a man becomes what he purposes, and gains for himself what he really desires

Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for life. By keeping eyes, mind, and heart open to nature, men, books, experience, and what he gathers, serves him at unexpected moments, in unforeseen

The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.

He strains his conversation through a cigar.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.