“Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.”

“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”

“I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance. ”

“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.”

“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”

“If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. ”