With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

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

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.