Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.