Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.

We of the third sphere are unable to look at Europe or at Asia as they may survey each other. Wherever we go, across Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre.' Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.