If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

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.

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

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

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.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

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