Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.