the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.