Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

As new discoveries are causing all-penetrating physical lights so to abound as that, as has been said, we shall soon not know where in the world to get any darkness, so our new facilities for every sort of communication work to reduce privacy much within its former limits.

My business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,--mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

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