I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

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.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

the brain works better if the hand works too.