Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Quotes

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

There's no doctor like meat and drink.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

I am for everything starting into full-blown perfection at once.

Oh, how easy it must be to be good when one has the power of doing good!

... what will not the heart endure ere it will voluntarily surrender the hoarded treasure of its love to the cold dictates of reason or the stern voice of duty!

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.