Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, w...hose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the futur...e, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought d...own politically to the level of those others disfranchised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, ho...ping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again--and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My Christian friends, in bonds of love, whose hearts in sweetest union join, Your friendship's like a drawing band, yet we mu...st take the parting hand. Your company's sweet, your union dear; Your words delightful to my ear, Yet when I see that we must part, You draw like cords around my heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I lost myself in my work and never felt that marriage would give me the security I wanted. I thought that through the trade uni...on movement we working women could get better conditions and security of mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »