A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

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.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

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.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

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.