A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

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

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

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

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

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.