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

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

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

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.

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

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.