we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

- Ethel M. Dell

Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

- Ethel M. Dell

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

- Ethel M. Dell

Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

- Ethel M. Dell

there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

- Ethel M. Dell

What we once fling away never comes again to us.

- Ethel M. Dell

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

- Ethel M. Dell

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

- Ethel M. Dell

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

- Ethel M. Dell