It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.