When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

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

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

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.