Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.