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 t…

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

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 …

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the hum…

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of…

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

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 …

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will…

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

- Hamilton Wright Mabie