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

As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.

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

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.

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.

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.