Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

Woo the muse of the odd.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.