We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.