A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

Every season of life has its compensations.

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

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.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

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.

No nation ever rises higher than its women.