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

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

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

Human nature is above all things lazy.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.