The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

If I have more than one life, I would definitelydedicate this one entirely to you." - MAGNETIC REVERIE

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

The most ordinary words have amazing life in them.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.