I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.