Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

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

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

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