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

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.