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

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

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

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.