The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Smell is a fallen angel.

Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts.

I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

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.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought.