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

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.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.