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

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.

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

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.

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

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.