The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.