I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

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

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

Truth is the first of jewels.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.