Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.

Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.