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

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."