How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.