It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
From Harriet Martineau
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
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