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.

God is action - let us be like God.

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.

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

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

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.