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

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.

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

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

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

There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.