For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

You’re like a newly discovered universe, and I plan on taking my time exploring everything about you.

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

It's fear that makes an act courageous.

So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.

If a woman is determined, she will get what she wants because we are very determined creatures.

You have to look at each tie and look at what your options are.

Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.

It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.