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.

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.

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

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.

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

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

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