Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

The true task is to unite and organize all workers...and it is the workers themselves who must secure freedom for themselves.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.