To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.