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

Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blun….

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represe….

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty..

Wine is earth's answer to the sun..

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

Be what you would seem to be..

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain..

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue..

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harve….

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of wome….

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience..

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

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking..

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

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

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

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live..

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden ….

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself..

We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world ha….