Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

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

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.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

All great authors are seers.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.