We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

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

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

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.