I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.