When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it…

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it…

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Many true words are spoken in jest.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either …

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and r…

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik