Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

I spoke at a woman's club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young lady said to me afterwards, "Well, that sounds very nice, but don't you think it is better to be the power behind the throne?" I answered that I had not had much experience with thrones, but a woman who has been on a throne, and who is now behind it, seems to prefer to be on the throne.

Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.