Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil..

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immoralit….

Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every si….

If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be lov….

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death..

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and w….

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive..

There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they can….

Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more f….

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it th….

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love..

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are..

Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Sociall….

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals..

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny..

Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all t….

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought..

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love..

... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pa….

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the u….

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle o….