What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

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.

As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.