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.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.