I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

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

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.