This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

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