The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.