In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.