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

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

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.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

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

Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.