For My Own Part, I Had Rather

For My Own Part, I Had Rather Suffer Any Inconvenience From Having To Work Occasionally In Chambers And Kitchenthan Witness The Subservience In Which The Menial Class Is Held In Europe.

Must Love Be Ever Treated With Profaneness As A Mere Illusion? Or With Coarseness As A Mere Impulse? Or With Fear As A Mere Disease? Or With Shame As A Mere Weakness? Or With Levity As A Mere Accident? Whereas It Is A Great Mystery And A Great Necessity, Lying At The Foundation Of Human Existence, Morality, And Happiness,--mysterious, Universal, Inevitable As Death.

Public Opinion, - A Tyrant, Sitting In The Dark, Wrapt Up In Mystification And Vague Terrors Of Obscurity; Deriving Power No One Knows From Whom ... - But Irresistible In Its Power To Quell Thought, To Repress Action, To Silence Conviction.

Readers Are Plentiful; Thinkers Are Rare.

I Saw No Poor Men, Except A Few Intemperate Ones. I Saw Some Very Poor Women; But God And Man Know That The Time Has Not Come For Women To Make Their Injuries Even Heard Of.