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.

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

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

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