Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another’s life.

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it’s bloom, or it’s garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

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.

How anyone can remain a Catholic – I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years – after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

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 body.

Wine is earth’s answer to the sun.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself.

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 it learn the all.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man...

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels...