“I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow too but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris a lark a bluebird or a dewy morning glory.”

“Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”

“Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”

“Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.”

“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.”

“I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.”

“Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.”

“From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.”

“Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.”

“Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.”

“Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.”