Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

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

The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

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.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.