The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

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

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

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

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

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

Science is not addressed to poets.