There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

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

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.