If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

How confident we are in our faith is how victorious we will be

It is important for all of us to understand that free people are not governed by rules. Here at Hillsdale we are governed by goals, and then the rules are very broad.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

I seek … the means to fight injustice. To turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.

One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.

Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?

Swing easy and hit hard.

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.