Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

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.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

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

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.