I find no intellect comparable to my own

All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

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

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

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

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.