[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

Morality does not depend on religion.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

See! This our fathers did for us.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.