“ 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 accompli… Amelia Barr
“ It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. Amelia Barr
“ Let me tell thee time is a very precious gift of God so precious that it's only given to us moment by moment. Amelia Barr
“ But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. 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
“ We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition. Amelia Barr
“ The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them. Amelia Barr
“ There are no little events in life those we think of no consequence may be full of fate and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered… 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,… Amelia Barr
