One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

- Edith Roosevelt

[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marri…

- Edith Roosevelt

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life.

- Edith Roosevelt

while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

- Edith Roosevelt