The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

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

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.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.