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.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Artists are always young.

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

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.