The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

I find no intellect comparable to my own

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

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.