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

- Mary Catherwood

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

- Mary Catherwood

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

- Mary Catherwood

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

- 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

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

- Mary Catherwood

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

- Mary Catherwood

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

- Mary Catherwood

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

- Mary Catherwood