For every child that is born, it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man.

A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.