It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.

All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.