We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.