The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach it's members how to live in harmony with their environment-def ined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources.

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

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

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.