Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

Sincerity is moral truth.

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

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

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