The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

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

[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

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

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

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