I endeavor to make the most of everything.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

It must always be remembered that you can never do right until you are first free to do wrong; since the doing of a thing under compulsion is evidence neither of good nor bad intent; and if under compulsion, who shall decide what would be the substituted rule of action under full freedom?

The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.