Margaret Deland Quotations

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

nothing may be more selfish than remorse ...

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.