Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.