I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!