Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

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.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

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.