There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.
Science is not addressed to poets.
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.