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.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.

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

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

The artist is called a creator.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.