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

Artists are always young.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

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

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.