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

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.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

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.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

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