What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.