It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

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.

Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!