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

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.

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.

So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.

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

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

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