"Permit me first to present some facts in regard to the situation of an immense number of young children in this land,…"

"Two millions of American children are left without any teachers at all, while, of those who go to school, a large por…"

"While every intelligent man in the Union is reading and saying every day of his life that unless our children are tra…"

"Our two millions of little children, who are growing up in heathenish darkness, enchained in ignorance, and in many c…"

"Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together; and then the articles …"

"There is almost nothing which a man cannot believe, if only he wishes to believe it"

"The educating of children, that is the true and noble profession of a woman — that is what is worthy the noblest peer…"

"Another cause which deeply affects the best interests of our sex is the contempt, or utter neglect ad indifference, w…"

"It is the high character of my countrywomen, and the great power and influence they thus command, which has been my c…"

"One single vulgar, or deceitful, or licentious domestic may, in a single month, mar the careful an anxious training o…"