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!

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

Once it was necessary that the people should multiply and be fruitful if the race was to survive. But now to preserve the race it is necessary that people hold back the power of propagation.