It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.