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

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.

God is action - let us be like God.

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.

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.