Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.