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.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

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

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.