Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

- Margaret Ayer Barnes

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better…

- Margaret Ayer Barnes

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.

- Margaret Ayer Barnes

The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roisterin…

- Margaret Ayer Barnes

Character is the best security.

- Margaret Ayer Barnes

It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.

- Margaret Ayer Barnes

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from W…

- Margaret Ayer Barnes

Riches make cowards of us.

- Margaret Ayer Barnes

Character comes before scholarship.

- Margaret Ayer Barnes