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

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

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

Artists are always young.

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.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.