But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

He who breathes deepest lives most.