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

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 have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train.

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

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

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.

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.