It is our harsh fate on earth that body and soul should be so closely bound together; that the soul should have to drag the body along, should be exposed to its vicissitudes, should even respond to them. This primal curse has always weighed heavily upon us; but how much more heavily under a religious law which compels us to endure this outrageous condition; which will not permit our honor, when it is imperiled, to save itself by casting aside the body, and seeking refuge in the world of the spirit!

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.