The artist is called a creator.

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.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

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

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

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

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.