Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.