Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

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

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

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.

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

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.