It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it. – Amelia Barr
It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. – Amelia Barr

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it. – Amelia Barr
It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. – Amelia Barr
But the lovers power is the poets power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. – Amelia Barr
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world. – Arthur Helps, “Chapter IV,” Companions of My Solitude, 1851