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

School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has to be done at home, and which may be done in all homes where the mother is a sensible woman.

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

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

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

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