“It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.”

“None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.”

“French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.”

“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.”

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

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”

“Life is stronger than death.”