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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.