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.

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

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

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.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

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

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.