Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.