That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.

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, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.