Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.