The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.