Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.