talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.