Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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 possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.

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.

But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.