In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

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

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

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

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

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.

It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.