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

Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.

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.

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

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.

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.