Mary Johnston

“Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.”

“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”

“Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions, if it be not the discovery and the conquest of a new one.”

“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”

“God is not a static thing...but a process.”

“Grief is a tattered tent, Where through God’s light doth shine.”

“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”

“The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every evening.”

“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a zero.”