Quotes

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners, time to restore to them their lost dignity, and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world.

There is something in what you say, my good friend, and what do we meet for but to speak our minds—freedom of opinion, freedom of the press, liberty—that kind of thing?

There are a good many hard times in this life of ours, but we can always bear them if we ask help in the right way.

The thought of going to college took root in my heart and became an earnest desire, which impelled me to enter into competition for a degree with seeing and hearing girls, in the face of the strong opposition of many true and wise friends.

Every man stood firm; and at our last meeting, we pledged ourselves afresh, in the most solemn manner, that, at the time appointed, we would certainly start in pursuit of freedom.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

Herein doth consist happiness of life, for a man to know thoroughly the true nature of everything; what is the matter, and what is the form of it: with all his heart and soul, ever to do that which is just, and to speak the truth.

A man’s master is he who is able to confer or remove whatever that man seeks or shuns.

To those who are good (to me), I am good; and to those who are not good (to me), I am also good;--and thus (all) get to be good.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

The very hopes of man, the thoughts of his heart, the religion of nations, the manners and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a new generalization.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

So quick bright things come to confusion.

and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended,

The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: