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

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.