What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small...

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.