“Thrice hallowed shrine
Of the heart's intercourse, our own fireside!”

“Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

“Our own attitude to intercourse with "spirits" must be determined not by the authority of great teachers of the 13th or any other century, but by our examination in the light of the best secular knowledge of our time of the revelation of spiritual truth given by Christ.”

“But song has touch'd my lips with fire,
And made my heart a shrine;
For what, although alloy'd, debased,
Is in itself divine.”

“We are the breakers of our own hearts”

“In ourselves
In our own honest hearts and chainless hands
Will be our safeguard:”

“Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor.”

“Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines,
Shrines to no code or creed confined,—
The Delphian vales, the Palestines,
The Meccas of the mind.”

“It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.”

“From primitive times to our own, intercourse has always been considered a "service" for which the male thanks the woman by giving her presents or assuring her maintenance; but to serve is to give oneself a master; there is no reciprocity in this relation.”