What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

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

The life of the soul is incalculable.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.