The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.