Religion Is A Temper, Not

Must Love Be Ever Treated With Profaneness As A Mere Illusion? Or With Coarseness As A Mere Impulse? Or With Fear As A Mere Disease? Or With Shame As A Mere Weakness? Or With Levity As A Mere Accident? Whereas It Is A Great Mystery And A Great Necessity, Lying At The Foundation Of Human Existence, Morality, And Happiness,--mysterious, Universal, Inevitable As Death.

Marriage ... Is Still The Imperfect Institution It Must Remain While Women Continue To Be Ill-educated, Passive, And Subservient.

I Have No Sympathy For Those Who, Under Any Pressure Of Circumstances, Sacrifice Their Heart's-love For Legal Prostitution.

Self-denial Is Taught Much Better By Inspiring The Love Of Our Neighbor, Than By The Prohibition Of Innocent Comforts And Pleasures. Spirituality Is Much Better Taught By Making Spiritual Things The Objects Of Supreme Desire, Than By Commanding An Ostentatious Avoidance Of The Enjoyments Of Life.

[on Being Deaf:] How Much Less Pain There Is In Calmly Estimating The Enjoyments From Which We Must Separate Ourselves, Of Bravely Saying, For Once And For Ever, 'let Them Go,' Than In Feeling Them Waste And Dwindle, Till Their Very Shadows Escape From Our Grasp!