This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

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.

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

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.

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.

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