There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.