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

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

Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: - it seems rather to enlarge it.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.