“Marie was above all a born critic of life—love and sorrow, passion and pain serving but as the raw material for the development of thought and analysis.”

Treating emotion and suffering as material from which thought can be made · Introduction to The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (1890)

• Art
• Despair
• Love

“In fact, the one is a theory of life, the other a disease of the soul.”

Distinguishing a lived philosophy from a state of spiritual collapse · Biography, George Eliot (1883)

• Despair
• Truth

“Had Shelley only lived longer, he might have succeeded in harmonising his views of Nature with those so luminously developed by Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and other scientific thinkers.”

Imagining how a longer life might have brought Romantic poetry into dialogue with evolutionary science · Lecture, Shelley's View of Nature Contrasted with Darwin's (1886)

• Nature
• Poetry
• Time