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

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.