Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.