... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?