When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

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

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

Science is not addressed to poets.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

The artist is called a creator.

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