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.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.