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" Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. "

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" Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. "

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" Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. "

" I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. "

" The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. "

" Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. "

" Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. "

" It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy. "

" Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. "

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

" Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. "

" It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance. "

" Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. "

" Nature provides exceptions to every rule. "

" A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. "

" It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. "

" The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. "

" Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. "

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

" The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. "

" Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. "

" Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. "

" It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. "

" We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. "

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