Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.

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

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.