Quotes by Frances Willard

• This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
• The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
• In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
• Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.