Science is not addressed to poets.

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

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

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

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

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.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.