You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.