What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.