You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.