Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

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.

When you open your mind, you let happiness in.

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thine heart.

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

The time has come to give Americans the freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines.

I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.