To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.