No Good Work Is Ever Done While

The Troubles Of The Young Are Soon Over; They Leave No External Mark. If You Wound The Tree In Its Youth The Bark Will Quickly Cover The Gash; But When The Tree Is Very Old, Peeling The Bark Off, And Looking Carefully, You Will See The Scar There Still. All That Is Buried Is Not Dead.

When The Curtain Falls No One Is Ready

A Child Sees Everything, Looks Straight At It, Examines It, Without Any Preconceived Idea; Most People, After They Are About Eleven Or Twelve, Quite Lose This Power, They See Everything Through A Few Preconceived Ideas Which Hang Like A Veil Between Them And The Outer World.

There Is No Door At Which The Hand Of Woman Has Knocked For Admission Into A New Field Of Toil But There Have Been Found On The Other Side The Hands Of Strong And Generous Men Eager To Turn It For Her, Almost Before She Knocks.

Power! Did You Ever Hear Of Men Being Asked Whether Other Souls Should Have Power Or Not? It Is Born In Them. You May Dam Up The Fountain Of Water, And Make It A Stagnant Marsh, Or You May Let It Run Free And Do Its Work; But You Cannot Say Whether It Shall Be There; It Is There. And It Will Act, If Not Openly For Good, Then Covertly For Evil; But It Will Act.