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.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

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

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.