For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

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

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.

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

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

[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!