Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.