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.

We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.

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

Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

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

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.

Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.