In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

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

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

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

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.