The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

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

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.