Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world.

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.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.