[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

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

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

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

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