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.

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

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.

The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

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.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

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