Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.

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

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

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