If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

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

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.

Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

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