Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
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.