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.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

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.

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

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.

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.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.