The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.