"Woman's great mission is to train immature weak, and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social, and the moral . . ."

"How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering."

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and schoo1 to be still more undervalued and shunned.

"The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves."

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.