All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

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

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

The artist is called a creator.