Gail Hamilton Quotes
Gail Hamilton was the pen name of Mary Abigail Dodge who was an American writer and essayist.
(1833 - 1896)
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Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
[Ability]
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Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
[Self Acceptance]
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Life has such hard conditions that every dear and precious gift, every rare virtue, every genial endowment, love, hope, joy, wit, sprightliness, benevolence, must sometimes be put into the crucible to distil the one elixir - patience.
[Patience]
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The total depravity of inanimate things.
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Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
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