The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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.