Dinah Craik

“In marriage there must be perfect unity;—one aim, one faith, one love, or the marriage is incomplete, unholy—a mere civil contract and no more.”

“"You want to found a family. [...] [A]ll coming generations shall live to the honour and glory of your name—our name—""My boy, there is only one Name to whose honour we should all live."”

“I think a wife is bound to the very last to obey in all things not absolutely wrong, her husband's will.”

“I hold every man's faith so sacred, that no other man has a right to interfere with it, or to question it. The matter lies solely between himself and his Maker.”

“I think either parent would have looked amazed had any one pitied them for having a blind child. The loss—a loss only to them, and not to her, the darling!—became familiar, and ceased to wound; the blessedness was ever new.”

“Half the sting of poverty is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comments of one's neighbours.”

“John held strongly the opinion that so solemn a festival as marriage is only desecrated by outward show.”

“I am a Christian. I shall not return blow for blow.”

“Lad, I thought so. Thee hast found the curse of man's life—woman.”

“It's astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.”

“"Get out o' Mr. Fletcher's road, ye idle, lounging, little —"{{pb}}"Vagabond," I think the woman (Sally Walkins, once my nurse,) was going to say, but she changed her mind.”

“Oh, if I could live four weeks longer! but no matter, no matter!”

“And when I lie in the green kirkyard,  With the mould upon my breast,Say not that 'She did well — or ill,'  Only, 'She did her best!'”

“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. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.”

“We never know through what divine mysteries of compensation the Great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; and those three words, "God is love," ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.”

“Douglas, Douglas, tender and true!”

“[T]he only real parting is when there is no love left to part from.”