The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.