[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.

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

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.