But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.