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

Truth is the first of jewels.

Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

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.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.