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"If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up."
"The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future."
"Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite."
"You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church."
"Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life."
"Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil."
"Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion."