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

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.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

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

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.