A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.