The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.