The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
George Henry LewesAll bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
George Henry LewesCharacter is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
George Henry LewesMetaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.
George Henry Lewes