“Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.” IfsWayImaginationFameVanityAbout YourselfDelicateSensibilityPublicityWrong Way Author:Corra May Harris
“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.” IfsWorldYearsMayTwoHomeRememberNamesWishFamilyRecordsMissingExpressionMaterialsProudPeriodsRelationFaultsForgottenCome UpCommittedNobleAppealsFollyFortyAssetsBe ProudBack HomeBrowsLaurelsProud Of YouFamily Name Author:Corra May Harris
“if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.” IfsFeelsLongSoulEnoughFeelingsNaturalNatural Feelings Author:Corra May Harris
“I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.” IfsBelieveKindLongEnoughJoyI BelieveWaitingSorrowHonorable Author:Corra May Harris
“As I have grown older I am more and more convinced that I have not grown up, that my powers have not come to me, not my real wisdom to do and achieve the right thoughts. I lack some dear grace. I cannot seem to steady down and get the single eye. There is a curriculum in living in which I have not studied. This may be happiness. I want to know it; I should feel better prepared for immortality. I do not wish to arrive fagged at last and a bit slipshod in the spirit, as if I had a hard time all my mortal life. It is not complimentary to God.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsShouldMayRealHardSeemsEyeLastsSpiritWishBitsGraceAchieveDown AndPreparedDearConvincedMortalsImmortalityHard TimesSteadyFeel BetterCurriculumReal WisdomSingle Eye Author:Corra May Harris
“So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.” IfsMenLongDoeBusinessFailingDrinkRootsGlassesBeerRoot Beer Author:Corra May Harris
