Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

Excess is the common substitute for energy.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.