For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

Truth is the first of jewels.