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Sincerity is moral truth.
All great authors are seers.
The artist is called a creator.
The only cure for grief is action.
Science is not addressed to poets.
Love is blind; couch not his eyes.
Good writers are of necessity rare.
Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
Insight is the first condition of Art.
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.
Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.
The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.
There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.