The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.