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

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

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

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.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.