Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action. — Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
New england is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. — Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back. — Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. — Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class. — Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise — Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try. — Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy. — Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards