The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose..

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

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the par….

The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obta….

After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise..

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman..

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led t….

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 stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening..

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is ….

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors..

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm..

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy..

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little..

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid ….

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

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness..

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

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause..

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same lov….

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling..