Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.

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

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.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

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

Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.

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