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

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

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

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

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

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.