The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.