Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.