For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to…

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honourable, than that of teaching?

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.

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.

There is no reason why a woman should not receive the same pay for the same work as a man. To argue otherwise is to argue against justice.

How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.

It is neither capital nor labor but management that brings success, since management will attract capital, and capital can employ labor.