I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?...Like a marriage from which love has gone...And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

I've repeatedly said that for people as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors, we make pictures - and that'…

No thyng ys to man so dere As wommanys love yn gode manere. A gode womman is mannys blys.