I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.