Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

God is action - let us be like God.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.