"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure pre..." — Harriet Martineau

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.