Long ago she had learned that to seem to yield is always stronger than to show resistance, and to acknowledge a fault quickly is always to show an invincible rectitude.

The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything—or nothing.

IT WAS HER FORTIETH birthday. Madame Wu sat before the tilted mirror of her toilet case and looked at her own calm face. In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living.

The very young are not ready for much knowledge. It must be given to them slowly, in proportion to their years of life. One must first live before he can safely know.