Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.

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

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

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

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

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

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