Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.
You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.
We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.