With the intellect, I always have-always shall overcome, but that is not half of the work of life. The life-oh my God-shall the life never be sweet?
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. – Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask me what offices they may fill, I reply-any. I do not care what case you put; let them be sea captains, if you will.
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself.
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.