All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

We generally get the evil we expect.