To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

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.

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

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

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.