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.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

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

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.