Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone waiting for a place and helps to open a new vocation for herself and other women.

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.

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

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

Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while.

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

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