The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . . .

It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.