The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

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...

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have...

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an...

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public...

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the...

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has...

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Today is a reader; Tomorrow is a leader

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

When I saw it, the damage was severe, … It really fried the unit.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a...

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

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.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that’s where they stay.

I guess I felt compelled to express the loss I was feeling and the fact that I was praying for her. I didn’t really think about whether she would receive my message or not.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one’s self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day’s performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from...

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.