I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

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

We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.