When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

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.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.