I have got so far as to lose the distinction between right and wrong. Isn't that the first step in politics? Democracy: An American Novel (1880)
I have faith; not perhaps in the old dogmas, but in the new ones; faith in human nature; faith in science; faith in the survival of the fittest. Let us be true to our time, Mrs. Lee! Democracy: An American Novel (1880)
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. She was in excellent health, but she said that the climate would do her good. Democracy: An American Novel (1880)
Who, then, is right? How can we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is fast becoming perfect. Both cannot be right. Democracy: An American Novel (1880)
...any woman will, under the right conditions, marry any man at any time, provided her "higher nature" is properly appealed to. Democracy: An American Novel (1880)