for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.