Occupation: Author Birth: June 27, 1880 Death: June 1, 1968
Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow..
There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit..
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myse….
The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be..
The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart..
Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it..
The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'.
Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart..
For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should obj….
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze a….
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light..
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet..
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes an….
Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes..
Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail..
The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision..
The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances..
Smells are the fallen angels of the senses..
I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come..
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers..
What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is..