There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

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

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

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

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.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and to view mankind in true perspective, in their gradations of inherent rather than of adventitious worth. Genius is therefore essentially democratic, and has always been so.

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.