influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will, sooner or later, put forth a moral power which shall prostrate cant, and burst asunder the bonds (silken to some but cold iron to others) of feudal prejudice and usages. In the meantime is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? If so, what is the ground of this limitation?

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

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.