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.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

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

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

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.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.