Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
George Henry LewesRemember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.
George Henry LewesThe true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
George Henry LewesIt 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.
George Henry Lewes