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

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

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

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

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