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

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.

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

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.