Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

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.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Science is not addressed to poets.

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.