Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

You have more people that love you than you know.

What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature's hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God's marvelous firmament!

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?