Old age is the verdict of life.
Amelia Barr

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
Amelia Barr

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Amelia Barr

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Amelia Barr

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia Barr