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.

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.

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

Failure is not the end

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,

It's always nice when the eccentrics show up.

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

We like the gift when we the giver prize.

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.