Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.
Source: In Poor Man's College Quotations Collection, ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994.
-- Mary Lyon, (Feb 28 1797-1849), US educator; She founded and was president of Mount Holyoke College, 1837-49.