The only cure for grief is action.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

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.

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

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Good writers are of necessity rare.