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

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

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

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.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.