"The only cure for grief is action."
"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
"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."
"Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families."
"Science is the systematic classification of experience."
"Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed."
"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress."
"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
"A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet."
"The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse."
"Science is not addressed to poets."
"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."
"Good writers are of necessity rare."
"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."
"Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art."
"All good Literature rests primarily on insight."
"Sincerity is moral truth."
"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."
"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."
"Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature."
"Insight is the first condition of Art."
"In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable."
"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."
"The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised."
"All great authors are seers."
