To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

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

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.

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.

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

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

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.