Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

I accept the universe!