I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.