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

In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.

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

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

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?