The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

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

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.