Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

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

I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.

I was born 'neath a clouded star.

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

I never could be good when I was not happy.