The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is ….

Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereig….

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved..

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life..

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection..

Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy..

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man..

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous..

The life of the soul is incalculable..

I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions..

Pain has no effect but to steal some of my time..

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 hap….

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distr….

What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher i….

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine de….

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance with….

Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more….

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the….

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 ord….

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….