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.

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.

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

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!

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.

I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!