The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.