People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.