The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

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

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

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.

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.