Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.