The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.