Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least..

I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found….

Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope that anything that could be said in book….

if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary corres….

The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political mora….

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education..

We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it..

As new discoveries are causing all-penetrating physical lights so to abound as that, as has been said, we shall soon not know where in the world to g….

I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of language or darkening o….

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient..

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry..

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit..

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their….

Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts..

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument..

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America..

Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... ….

While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life woul….

School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has to be done at home, and….

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs canno….

Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who w….