Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.