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

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

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.

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

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.