Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

genius has no limit of sex or race.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.