There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.