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

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

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

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

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

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

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

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 love that we shall feel when we are angels.

[On marriage and permanent attach

I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

In the three years I played ball we won six lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.