Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.

It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.