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

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.

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

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

Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.

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

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.