No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.