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.

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

A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?

Love grows by service.

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

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

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