If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.