“The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.”

“All you need is one thought and one word. When you learn how to connect them, you can do anything you like.”

“How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?”

“How can it be?" she wondered. "I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns (...) But not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else — what do they look to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?”

“The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.”

“What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".”