When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.