I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.

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

This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,--the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.

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!

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

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.

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.