[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

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.

Trading is injurious to your wealth. If you are smoking you may die in 20-30 years whereas by trading, this may happen the very next day.

I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.

the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it.

I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Each individual is a species unto him/herself.

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

Let me tell you that I love the United States.