But alas for the dreams that round us play! / For the plans of mortal making! / And alas for the false and fickle day / That looked so fair at waking!

- Phoebe Cary

Never is true love blind, but rather brings an added light.

- Phoebe Cary

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure t…

- Phoebe Cary

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

- Phoebe Cary

Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build

- Phoebe Cary

And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.

- Phoebe Cary

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.

- Phoebe Cary

All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today

- Phoebe Cary

Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing Life's inequalities, and woe, and care, The burdens laid upon our mortal being Seem heavier than the …

- Phoebe Cary