I have preferred chloroform to cancer

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

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

The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind