The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

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

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.