Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

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

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

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