There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.