Men, for the sake of getting a living, forget to live.
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Let us be wise, and not impede the soul.
Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself.
It seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
It is astonishing what force, purity and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
I doubt whether, in the eyes of pure intelligence, an ill-grounded hasty rejection be not a greater sign of weakness than an ill-grounded and hasty faith.
God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
