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

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

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.

All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

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