As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

During the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. If we have once seen, "the day is ours, and what the day has shown."

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow equal rights upon women and take them into partnership in the affairs of the state. We hoped that their common sense would triumph over prejudices and stupidity. We thought their boasted sense of justice would overcome the errors that so often fetter the human spirit; but we have always gone away empty handed. We shall beg no more.