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.

Love grows by service.

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

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

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.