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

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.