When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Men as a general rule have very little reverence for trees.

A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?