Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

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 was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

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