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

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

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

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

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