Literature is the immortality of speech.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.