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

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

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

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