Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
Science is the systematic classification of experience.