Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.

Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

I can say that the happiest period of my life has been since I emerged from the shadows and superstitions of the old theologies, relieved from all gloomy apprehensions of the future, satisfied that as my labors and capacities were limited to this sphere of action, I was responsible for nothing beyond my horizon, as I could neither understand nor change the condition of the unknown world. Giving ourselves, then, no trouble about the future, let us make the most of the present, and fill up our lives with earnest work here.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.