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.

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.

Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

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

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.