He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.