There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.