Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

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

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.