It is inevitable that an external freedom, an independence of the encroachments of other men, such as has been achieved for the nation, should be so also for every member of it.
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to Woman is her whole existence; she also is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.
Harmony exists in difference, no less than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
Every relation, every gradation of nature is incalculably precious, but only to the soul which is poised upon itself, and to whom no loss, no change, can bring dull discord, for it is in harmony with the central soul.
Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field?
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!
Very early I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops.
