Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

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

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.

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.

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

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.