Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.