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

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

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.