The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

.All the moralities tell them that it is the duty of women, and all the current sentimentalities that it is their nature, to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but their affections. - The Subjection of Women.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.