Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

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.

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.