To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

Power is neither male nor female.