A Word May Become So

A Little Weeping, A Little Wheedling, A Little Self-degradation, A Little Careful Use Of Our Advantages, And Then Some Man Will Say .come, Be My Wife! With Good Looks And Youth Marriage Is Easy To Attain. There Are Men Enough; But A Woman Who Has Sold Herself, Even For A Ring And A New Name, Need Hold Her Skirt Aside For No Creature In The Street. They Both Earn Their Bread In One Way. Marriage For Love Is The Most Beautiful External Symbol Of The Union Of Souls; Marriage Without It Is The Least Clean Traffic That Defiles The World.

We Have Always Borne Part Of The Weight Of War, And The Major Part ... Men Have Made Boomerangs, Bows, Swords, Or Guns With Which To Destroy One Another; We Have Made The Men Who Destroyed And Were Destroyed! ... We Pay The First Cost On All Human Life.

Marriage For Love Is The Most Beautiful External Symbol Of The Union Of Souls; Marriage Without It Is The Least Clean Traffic That Defiles The World.

There's Something So Beautiful In Coming On One's Very Inmost Thoughts In Another. In One Way It Is One Of The Greatest Pleasures One Has.

[finishing Schools] Are Nicely Adapted Machines For Experimenting On The Question, "into How Little Space A Human Being Can Be Crushed?" I Have Seen Some Souls So Compressed That They Would Have Fitted Into A Small Thimble, And Found Room To Move . . .