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

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

I find no intellect comparable to my own

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself