Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

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

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

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

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.