I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.