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.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

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

We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.