"Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child."

"I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long."

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

"The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell."

"Anywhere is walking distance, if you've got the time."