Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not
Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.
. . . I distrust manifest knowledge.
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limited and defused, simply because she has not been encouraged to learn methods of thought and develop a disciplined mind. As long as education remains largely induction ignorance will retain these advantages over learning and it is time that women impudently put them to work.