From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.