Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

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