Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.