I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

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.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

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

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

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.

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.