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

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.

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

Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.