God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.