In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

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

We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.

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

The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.