I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work