Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlook….

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression..

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to sol….

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it..

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it..

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.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion..

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it..

Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recall….

All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confi….

Artists are always young..

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency..

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in th….

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing ….

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts..

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain..

I accept the universe!.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves..

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed..

Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enou….

Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere….