If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

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

The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.

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

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.