The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.

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.

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

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.