Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.