What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.