Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

genius has no limit of sex or race.