Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

I studied my way out of all the mental agonies which Calvinism can engender and became a Unitarian.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertaking…

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless forever.