I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

I can stand out the war with any man.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852