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.

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

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

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.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.