Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the glory; nothing to mitigate their weary waiting and watching for the loved ones who return no more.

Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.