The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

- Mary Catherwood

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

- Mary Catherwood

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

- Mary Catherwood

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

- Mary Catherwood

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

- Mary Catherwood

The form of religion was always a trivial matter to me. ... The pageantry of the Roman Church that first mothered and nurtured me touches me to this …

- Mary Catherwood

What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

- Mary Catherwood

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

- Mary Catherwood

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

- Mary Catherwood