The Musgraves Quotes

“Jane Welsh Carlyle says in one of her letters, "One can never be too much alive to the consideration that one's every slightest action does not end when it has acted itself but propagates itself on and on, in one shape or another, through all time and away into eternity.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“Someday I mean to write a book of reminiscences; to delve into the cupboard of memory and sort out all the junk. There is so much to write about, so many little pictures grave and gay, so many ideas to think about and disentangle and arrange. Looking back is a fascinating pastime; looking back and wondering what one's life would have been if one had done this instead of that, if one had turned to the left at the crossroads instead of to the right, if one had stayed at home instead of going out or had gone out five minutes later.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“It will be seen from the foregoing sketch that my life has not been a very eventful one. I have had no hair-raising adventures nor travelled in little-known parts of the world, but wherever I have been I have made interesting friends and I still retain them. Friends are like windows in a house, and what a terribly dull house it would be that had no windows! They open vistas, they show one new and lovely views of the countryside. Friends give one new ideas, new values, new interests. Thank God for friends!”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“You've got to be a little bit greedy to be a good cook - I mean you've got to appreciate good food yourself - but even if I didn't like cooking very much I would enjoy cooking for Bunny.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“We mustn't set ourselves up as judges of what's right and what's wrong. If people are sorry and show it we should forgive them - but not otherwise”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” Esther knew only too well that the weight she carried was too much anxiety and her besetting sin was too little faith, so the verse was peculiarly applicable to her.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“It was nothing, really; just a straw in the wind! But a straw in the wind shows which way the wind is blowing”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“same way with the same background, and in outward appearance they were not unlike, but inwardly there was no resemblance at all:”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves