However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.