Quotes by Merle Shain

• Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
• You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.
• The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
• One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
• Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
• Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.