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

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

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

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.