Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.