Sincerity is moral truth.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

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

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.

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

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.