Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.

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.

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

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.