The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

Your little child is the only true democrat.