 All good Literature rests primarily on insight. |
| The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised. |
| When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. |
| In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable. |
| Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent. |
| The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions. |
| If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. |
| In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. |
| It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. |
| A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet. |
| Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. |
| The only cure for grief is action. |
| Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. |
| Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. |
| Science is not addressed to poets. |
| Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. |
| The public can only be really moved by what is genuine. |
| No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so. |
| Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. |
| All great authors are seers. |
