Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.

My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

For the wakeful one whose mind is quiet, whose thoughts are undisturbed, who has relinquished judgement and blame, there is no fear.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.