Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.

I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of language or darkening of its meanings can I be made to have any thing whatever in common with them about religious matters... they must take my word for it that there is nothing in common between their theology and my philosophy.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.