We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, ….

No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman….

There was never a great man who had not a great mother..

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted..

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down..

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for our….

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen ….

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing..

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffe….

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but wh….

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad..

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands ….

genius has no limit of sex or race..

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again..

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there ….

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea..

The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppres….

When the curtain falls no one is ready.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything..

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another..

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched..