I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.

Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.