Good writers are of necessity rare.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

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.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.