Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

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.

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny.

Every great soul had a great mentor.

We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

Nature felt no change, and was ever young.

My favorite thing is when people underestimate me.

If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when it begins?

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance.