But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

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.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.