The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum..

Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies hav….

Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn;….

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of th….

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of sy….

If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to ….

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel..

Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for someone wait….

The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about th….

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life..

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion..

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion..

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul..

Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we….

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perha….

God is action - let us be like God..