If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

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

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

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

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.