The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has bee….

As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the pride, and even the final cause ….

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which….

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early..

If the national mind of America be judged of by its legislation, it is of a very high order ... If the American nation be judged of by its literature….

[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, eith….

All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them will,….

During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, ….

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question..

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I….

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus ….

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I co….

I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness….

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last..

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit..

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others..

All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on with….

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as….

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature..

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering..