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Maria Jane McIntosh Quotes

...it is only death which is hopeless.

...it is only death which is hopeless.

Maria Jane McIntosh
Suicide, Suicidal, Hopeless

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

Maria Jane McIntosh
Beautiful, Sunday, Earth
Maria Jane McIntosh (1847). “Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be”, p.199

Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.

Maria Jane McIntosh
Disappointment, Soul, Holy
Maria Jane McIntosh (1851). “Grace and Isabel: Or, to Seem and to be”, p.196

There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.

Maria Jane McIntosh
Character, Gentleman, Principles

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