Occupation: Writer Birth: March 31, 1833 Death: August 17, 1896
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it..
What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat..
Christ made no distinction, but opened the door wide to woman as to man..
Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that ea….
There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether plea….
Man pays deference to woman instinctively, involuntarily, not because she is beautiful or truthful or wise or foolish or proper, but because she is a….
People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable of good work, c….
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as ….
Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has be….
The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon as a species of Wantley drago….
One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which ….
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more..
It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies..
Love me, and tell me so sometimes..