If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.