an artist is always seeking revelation.

Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.