What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?