Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.

Progress is the life-style of man.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.