1831-1919, Anglo-American Novelist
Old age is the verdict of life.
Amelia E. Barr – [Age and Aging]
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
Amelia E. Barr – [Prayer]
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Amelia E. Barr – [Love]
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 E. Barr – [Price]
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
Amelia E. Barr – [Science and Scientists]
With renunciation life begins.
Amelia E. Barr – [Abstinence]