ady Stanton, in her own unsurpassed
beauty of language, said:

I will attempt no analysis of one as dear to me as those of my own
household. In an intimate friendship of many years, without a break
or shadow; in daily consultation, sometimes for months together
under the same roof, often in circumstances of great trial and
perplexity, I can truly say that Susan B. Anthony is the most
charitable, self-reliant, magnanimous human being that I ever knew.

As I recall the honesty and heroism of her public life; her
tenderness and generous self-sacrifice to friends in private; her
spontaneous good will towards her worst enemies, a new hope kindles
within me for womankind--a hope that by giving some high purpose to
their lives, all women may be lifted above the petty envy,
jealousy, malice and discontent that now poison so many hearts
which might, in healthy action, overflow with love and helpfulness
to all humanity. Miss Anthony's grand life is a lesson to all
unmarried women, showing that the love-element need not be wholly
lost if it is not centered on husband and children. To live for a
principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are
to be lifted up--to be wedded to an idea--may be, after all, the
holiest and happiest of marriages.

In the twilight of age, when Mrs. Stanton prepared for future
generations the Reminiscences of her life and work of fourscore years,
she wrote to her old friend: "The current of our lives has run in the
same channel so long it can not be separated, and my book is as much
your story as, I doubt not, yours is mine;" and when it was ended she
placed upon it the inscription, "I dedicate this volume to Susan B.
Anthony, my steadfast friend for half a century."

Steadfast! No other word so fitly defines the keystone of the arch of
noble attributes upon which this heroic life is founded--as constant to
a principle as to a friendship. There is nothing of the martyr in Miss
Anthony's nature and she refuses to consider herself in the light of a
vicarious sacrifice. "I do not look back upon a hard life," she says; "I
have been continually at work because I enjoyed being busy. Had this
never-ending toil made me wretched in mind or body, I have no doubt that
in some way I should have gotten out of it." "What thanks did you
receive for the stand you made?" once was asked her. "I had my own
th