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

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.

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

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.

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