We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

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.

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.

Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it.

A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention.

There is nothing left in your right brain, and there is nothing right in your left brain..

Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely.

Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.