Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.