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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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