Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.

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

In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.