Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.