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

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.

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.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

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

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blunt the sense and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being. But I do wish that I had read no books at all till later - that I had lived with toys, and played in the open air. Children should not cull the fruits of reflection and observation early, but expand in the sun, and let thoughts come to them. They should not through books antedate their actual experiences.