Beware Of Over-great Pleasure In Being Popular

For Precocity Some Great Price Is Always Demanded Sooner Or Later In Life.

It Does Not Follow Because Many Books Are Written By Persons Born In America That There Exists An American Literature. Books Which Imitate Or Represent The Thoughts And Life Of Europe Do Not Constitute An American Literature. Before Such Can Exist, An Original Idea Must Animate This Nation And Fresh Currents Of Life Must Call Into Life Fresh Thoughts Along The Shore.

Be What You Would Seem To Be.

To One Who Has Enjoyed The Full Life Of Any Scene, Of Any Hour, What Thoughts Can Be Recorded About It Seem Like The Commas And Semicolons In The Paragraph-mere Stops.

I Have Urged On Woman Independence Of Man, Not That I Do Not Think The Sexes Mutually Needed By One Another, But Because In Woman This Fact Has Led To An Excessive Devotion, Which Has Cooled Love, Degraded Marriage And Prevented It Her Sex From Being What It Should Be To Itself Or The Other. I Wish Woman To Live, First For God's Sake. Then She Will Not Take What Is Not Fit For Her From A Sense Of Weakness And Poverty. Then If She Finds What She Needs In Man Embodied, She Will Know How To Love And Be Worthy Of Being Loved.