We women have before us the noblest end to which a finite creature…

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity and her servility, will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two people who truly love each other to be not who shall command, but, who shall yield.

We can benefit our kind in no way so much as by being ourselves pure and upright and noble-minded.

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to …

My great panacea for making Society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.