Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.