Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

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.

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

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.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.