Moral Excellence Has No Regard To Classes

[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!

Even If Their Outward Fortunes Could Be Absolutely Equalized, There Would Be, From Individual Constitution Alone, An Aristocracy And A Democracy In Every Land. The Fearful By Nature Would Compose An Aristocracy, The Hopeful By Nature A Democracy, Were All Other Causes Of Divergence Done Away.

Women, Like Men, Must Be Educated With A View To Action, Or Their Studies Cannot Be Called Education.

Leisure, Some Degree Of It, Is Necessary To The Health Of Every Man's Spirit.

My Own Feeling Of Concern Arises From Seeing How Much Moral Injury And Suffering Is Created By The Superstitions Of The Christian Mythology.