“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”

Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.

Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.

I can live neither with you, nor without you.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Every lover is a soldier.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.