Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.

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

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

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

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.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.