I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.