Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.

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