Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!