Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

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

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

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

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

Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.