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.

I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.

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.

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.

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.