“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. ”

“Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at the one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, ans she let it flow. There was more than enough for the child, greedy though he was, life enough for many children, and she let it flow out carelessly, conscious of her abundance. There was always more. Sometimes she lifted her breast and let it flow out upon the ground to save her clothing, and it sank into the earth and made a soft, dark, rich spot in the field. The child fat and good-natured and ate of the inexhaustible life his mother gave him.”

“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members”

“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.”

“I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being”

“Life is stronger than death.”

“The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”