"I am a soldier, and I have a great many battles to fight."

"It is not what we add to the world, but what we take away from it that makes us great."

"The craving for sympathy from others is a great weakness, for it makes us dependent upon them."

"The amount of good which a woman can do to a man is not by 'keeping house' for him, but by giving him a share in her own intellectual life."

"The world is not a school to teach us what we want to learn, but a school to teach us what we ought to learn."