Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

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

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.