I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.