01UndatedWas there ever a wiser or more loving conspiracy than that which keeps the venerable figure of Santa Claus from slipping away, with all the other old-time myths, into the forsaken wonderland of the past?Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
02UndatedCulture is not an accident of birth, although our surroundings advance or retard it; it is always a matter of individual education.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
03UndatedFrom Socrates to Browning the thinkers and poets have all been emancipators. In the end, this bringing of new light into the minds of the world will be counted their chief service.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
04UndatedI ought not to pronounce judgment on a fellow creature until I know all that enters into his life; until I can measure all the forces of temptation and resistance; until I can give full weight to all the facts in the case. In other words, I am never in a position to judge another.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
05UndatedThere is no kind of bondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man’s character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
06UndatedA dull day need not be a depressing day; depression always implies physical or moral weakness, and is therefore never to be tolerated so long as one can struggle against it.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
07UndatedI should count myself fortunate if my home were remembered for some inspiring quality of faith, charity, and aspiring intelligence.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
08UndatedNo man finds himself until he has created a world for his own soul; a world apart from care and weakness and the confusion of strife, in which the faiths that inspire him, and the ideals that lead him are the great and lasting verities.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
09UndatedThe test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been swept away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship still survives, in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
10UndatedA man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom more fruitful than his toil.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
11UndatedIn a world in which so many people wear the same clothes, live in the same house, eat the same dinner, and say the same things, blessed are the individuals who are not lost in the mob, who have their own thoughts, and live their own lives.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
12UndatedA man may get to his journey’s end by the light of a lantern, but he is less secure than the man who travels by daylight, and he loses the landscape.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
13In print by 1911 ADThere's a real grace of character in forgetting the things which disturb the harmony of life.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
14UndatedBlessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
15UndatedAll the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used." So he made up his mind to be cross with his wife about it. But she bore it all like a good patient queen as she was.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
16UndatedI do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.Hamilton Wright Mabie / quote ↗
