Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.