Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

Enemies are an indication of character.

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.