“The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.”

Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

In the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

… my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than ‘taking authority for truth.’

Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference ‘twixt compassion and oppression

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not

Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.