It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.