Deep experience is never peaceful.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.

Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.