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

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

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.

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

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.