Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.