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.

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

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.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

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