French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

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.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.