Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?

So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.