Alice Freeman Palmer, the second president of Wellesley College, was happiest when she was doing most for others. When she left the college she gave herself so unweariedly to her self-imposed task of lightening the burden of the unfortunate, that her husband, a Harvard professor, expostulated. He thought she should give her time and strength to writing books that would make her still more famous. “You are building no monument,” he said. "When you are gone people will ask who you are, and no one will be able to answer.

"I am trying to make girls happier and wiser. Books don’t help much toward that. It is people that count. You touch other people; these, others still, and so you go on working forever."
- John T. Faris

Recommended Reading

The Life of Dr. J.R. Miller by John T. Faris

Men Who Conquered by John T. Faris, Adam Starchild

Seeing The Far West by John T. Faris

On the Trail of the Pioneers:
Romance, Tragedy and Triumph of
the Path of Empire by John T. Faris

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery