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

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

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.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.