I Want To Be A Free Rover

I Loved, As I Still Love, The Most Monotonous Life Possible.

I Hope And Believe My Co-religionists Understand And Admit That I Disclaim Their Theology In Toto, And That By No Twisting Of Language Or Darkening Of Its Meanings Can I Be Made To Have Any Thing Whatever In Common With Them About Religious Matters... They Must Take My Word For It That There Is Nothing In Common Between Their Theology And My Philosophy.

During The Present Interval Between The Feudal Age And The Coming Time, When Life And Its Occupations Will Be Freely Thrown Open To Women As To Men, The Condition Of The Female Working Classes Is Such That If Its Sufferings Were But Made Known, Emotions Of Horror And Shame Would Tremble Through The Whole Of Society.

[on Being Deaf:] We Must Struggle For Whatever May Be Had, Without Encroaching On The Comfort Of Others.

The Systematic Abuse With Which The Newspapers Of One Side Assail Every Candidate Coming Forward On The Other, Is The Cause Of Many Honorable Men, Who Have A Regard To Their Reputation, Being Deterred From Entering Public Life; And Of The People Being Thus Deprived Of Some Better Servants Than Any They Have.