I am mentally bifocal.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.