[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

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

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

I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!

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.