The Imagination, Once Awakened, Must And Will

It Is Not Quite True That There Are No Good Letters Written In America: Among My Own Circle Of Correspondents There, There Are Ladies And Gentlemen Whose Letters Would Stand A Comparison With Any For Frankness, Grace, And Epistolary Beauty Of Every Kind. But I Am Not Aware Of Any Medium Between This Excellence And The Boarding-school Insignificance Which Characterizes The Rest.

All Women Should Inform Themselves Of The Condition Of Their Sex And Of Their Own Position. It Must Necessarily Follow That The Noblest Of Them Will, Sooner Or Later, Put Forth A Moral Power Which Shall Prostrate Cant, And Burst Asunder The Bonds (silken To Some But Cold Iron To Others) Of Feudal Prejudice And Usages. In The Meantime Is It To Be Understood That The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Bear No Relation To Half Of The Human Race? If So, What Is The Ground Of This Limitation?

Fidelity To Conscience Is Inconsistent With Retiring Modesty. If It Be So, Let The Modesty Succumb. It Can Be Only A False Modesty Which Can Be Thus Endangered.

It Is The Worst Humiliation And Grievance Of The Suffering, That They Cause Suffering.

I Certainly Had No Idea How Little Faith Christians Have In Their Own Faith Till I Saw How Ill Their Courage And Temper Can Stand Any Attack On It.