A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

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

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.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

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