No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

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

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

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

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.