Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

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.

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

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

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

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

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.