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.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

Feelings change facts.

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?