As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

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.

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.

Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

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.