The good is the greatest rival of the best.

Have we not the brains to think? Hands to work? Hearts to feel? And lives to live?

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.