I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.

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.

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

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.