People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.