I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.

Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

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.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

No nation ever rises higher than its women.