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.

God is action - let us be like God.

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.

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.

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.

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.