The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

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

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

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

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.