The only cure for grief is action.
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
Sincerity is moral truth.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
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