A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

Joy is the best of wine.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.