Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.