Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.

Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.