Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.