A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.