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

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

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

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.

Women are the true modelers of social order.