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

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

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

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.

[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.