A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.

I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mills supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

...[H]uman reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way.

The purpose of education is to open the windows of the mind.

This is the twilight shift, dear. Neither here nor there. But if you go into the dark, there'll be no turning back. Stay out of the office and you'll be happy. Trust me.

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.

When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.