Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth ... What a vast amount of labour and learning has been expended, as uselessly as emptying shallow puddles into sieves! How much intellect has been employed mousing after texts, to sustain preconceived doctrines!

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.