The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

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

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.

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.