The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

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.