The only cure for grief is action.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

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

Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.

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

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.