Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.

... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.