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

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

Science is not addressed to poets.

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.

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.

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

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