"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

"I love mankind, but I find that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire."

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

"The more we value things, the less we value ourselves."

"Real living is living for others."

"To believe that your impressions hold good for others is to be released from the confines of your own personality."

"Across the broad continent of a woman’s life, her biography is almost entirely a blank."

"As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking."

"Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for."

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of emancipation itself."

"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."

"Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title."

"Indeed, if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance."