The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.

... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

Music is the art of thinking with sounds.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

One is often guilty by being too just.

I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.

Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.