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.

All great authors are seers.

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

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

Good writers are of necessity rare.

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