Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the….

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble..

All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confi….

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency..

Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereig….

I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the ….

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distr….

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions..

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it..

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed..

The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is ….

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow..

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage..

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily..

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth..

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it..

The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future..

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything..