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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Very early I knew that the only objective in life was to grow.

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 confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope.

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.

I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Yet, by men in this country, as by the Jews, when Moses was leading them to the promised land, everything has been done that inherited depravity could do, to hinder the promise of Heaven from its fulfilment. The cross, here as elsewhere, has been planted only to be blasphemed by cruelty and fraud.

But the intellect, cold, is ever more masculine than feminine; warmed by emotion, it rushes towards mother earth, and puts on the forms of beauty.

Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit – doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

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.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

Artists are always young.

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 body.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another’s life.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day’s performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

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

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 Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

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

Be what you would seem to be.

Here, as elsewhere, the gain of creation consists always in the growth of individual minds, which live and aspire, as flowers bloom and birds sing, in the midst of morasses; and in the continual development of that thought, the thought of human destiny, which is given to eternity adequately to express, and which ages of failure only seemingly impede.

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

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

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 sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

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

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

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 deserves the punishment of bearing it.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

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.

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.

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.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

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 astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

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 recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

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