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.

To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.

a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

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.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

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