Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it’s bloom, or it’s garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.
Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.
It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels...
I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another’s life.
Be what you would seem to be.
There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.
Truth is the nursing mother of genius.
The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.
You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.
Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.
The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.
This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.