We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.