I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

[On women's role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.

I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.