A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

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.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

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