The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.