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.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

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

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

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

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.