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.

[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!

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.

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

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.