With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own experience. And even trained minds, when all their training is on a special subject, and does not extend to the general principles of induction, are only kept right when there are ready opportunities of verifying their inferences by facts.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.