Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

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.

there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.