The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex