Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

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.

It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb and said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.

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

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

[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.