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

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

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

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

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

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.