It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.

When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.