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

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

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

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

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

Sincerity is moral truth.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.