We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.