A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. |
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. |
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 |
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. |
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth |
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth |
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. |
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife |
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife |
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. |
I guess I felt compelled to express the loss I was feeling and the fact that I was praying for her. I didn't really think about whether she would receive my message or not. |
I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved. |
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own |
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it |
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it |