Quotes

But, when man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him; and, till that glorious period arrives, in descanting on the folly of the sex, let him not overlook his own.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

The study door flew open, the little red wrapper appeared on the threshold, joy put strength into the feeble limbs, and Beth ran straight into her father’s arms.

That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!

I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man.

To realize one’s nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.

The ambitious supposeth another man's act, praise and applause, to be his own happiness; the voluptuous his own sense and feeling; but he that is wise, his own action.

Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.

All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.

Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

The love of beauty is mainly the love of measure or proportion.

You wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody.

The picture I present to you is peaceful and human, and you must feel that you could deny it only in the wantonness of power and cruelty.

For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.

Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert, that woman ought to be subjected because she has always been so.

No man can judge what is good evidence on any particular subject, unless he knows that subject well.

Never had the sun risen so beautifully, and never had the world seemed so lovely as it did to the heavy eyes of Meg and Jo, as they looked out in the early morning, when their long, sad vigil was done.