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Economic independence is a relative condition at best.

The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.

What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become.

In that category before anything else comes old age, to which all wish to attain, and at which all grumble when attained.

The fact is that old age is respectable just as long as it asserts itself, maintains its proper rights, and is not enslaved to any one.

It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and ideas.

So I ask you today: How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

Your life will never be a straight path.

You’ll never see a U-haul behind a hearse.

The style shall be simple and familiar; but style is the image of character; and the habits of correct writing may produce, without labour or design, the appearance of art and study.

There are probably as many different dialects for the heart as for the tongue, are there not?

After all is said, if the young people have an earnest purpose in life it is easy to plan a method of living and to carry it out.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.

Do not admire your clothes, and then you will not be angry with the thief.

Have you anything better or greater to see than the sun, the moon, the stars, the whole earth, the sea?

If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.

Keep by every means what is your own; do not desire what belongs to others.

See that you do nothing like a sheep; but if you do, in this case also the man is lost.

To state the problem is to recall the truth that no single principle can answer all of life's complexities.

Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail.