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

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

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

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

The only cure for grief is action.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

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.