The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.