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

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

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

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

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.