I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.