The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of progress.

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

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.

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."

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

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.