Patriotism Is Understood To Be That Virtue

The World Is Not Always Kind To A Clever Woman Even When She Is Visibly Known To Be Earning Her Own Living. There Are Always Spiteful Tongues Wagging In The Secret Corners And Byways, Ready To Assert That Her Work Is Not Her Own And And That Some Man Is In The Background, Helping To Keep Her!

The Church Is A System, - But Whether It Is As Much Founded On The Teaching Of Our Lord, Who Was Divine, As On The Teaching Of St. Paul, Who Was Not Divine, Is A Question To Me Of Much Perplexity.

Work Is Happiness. No One Can Take My Work From Me And Therefore No One Can Take My Happiness From Me.

There Is Nothing So Inconvenient In This World As An Absolutely Truthful Person, Who Can Both Speak And Write, And Has The Courage Of His Convictions. One Can Always Arrange Matters With Liars ... But With The Man Or Woman Who Holds Truth Dearer Than Life, And Honor More Valuable Than Advancement, There Is Nothing To Be Done, Now That Governments Cannot Insist On The Hemlock-cure, As In The Case Of Socrates.

There Is Nothing So Depressing As A Constant Contemplation Of One's Self, And The Greatest Moral Cowardice In The World's Opinion Comes From Consulting One's Own Personal Convenience.