Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
... the door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.
... it has always proved that the grandeur of a nation was shown by the respect paid to woman.
[On being told that "every woman should stand with bared head before Susan B. Anthony":] Yes, and every man as well.
... the surest test of discipline is its absence.