the excess of all good things is mischievous.

our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually.

There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

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