“When you have done a great many good things, you forget to speak of them. It is those who do very little who must talk of it. -Henry in Miracles on Maple Hill”

“He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.”

“There are two types of women in the world, Beattie, those who do things and those who have things done to them.”

“ YOU claim you are blessed , YOU claim you have done all the good things and YOU even boast that YOU understand the Bible very well ,... have you not noticed that it was only YOU who say it?.....no wonder it was only YOU who talks and believe in it.”

“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. ”

“You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.”