"Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A little integrity is better than any career.”

“We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.”

“The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!”

“Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.”

“Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.”

“We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.”

“Victor Hugo said you can stop an invasion of armies, but you can never stop an invasion of ideas. There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. It wasn't until 1920, four years after my mother was born - and she's still alive and healthy - that women were given the right to vote. Now it's hard even to imagine that for the greater part of the history of our country fifty percent of the population was not allowed to vote.”

“Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'”

“Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.”