4 Dinah Craik Quotes on Meaning

Dinah Craik quotes on meaning

24. The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself - a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three. ~ Ch. 9

27. Nevertheless, taking life as a whole, believing that it consists not in what we have, but in our power of enjoying the same; that there are in it things nobler and dearer than ease, plenty, or freedom from care - nay, even than existence itself; surely it is not Quixotism, but common-sense and Christianity, to protest that love is better than outside show, labour than indolence, virtue than mere respectability.

28. Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another? ~ Ch. 10

45. Lo! all life this truth declares, Laborare est orare; And the whole earth rings with prayers.