Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

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

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

Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.