A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.

I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.