The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.

In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.

Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.