What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?
How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
I will eat grandfather for dinner.
I have an unshakable belief that mankind’s higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same.
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.
Happiness is attained through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.
Always make the most of every sense; glory in all the pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.
A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.
Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister’s hand.
The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
There’s only one story, the story of your life.
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach.
It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.