Literature Is At Once The Cause And

Remember That Every Drop Of Rain That Falls Bears Into The Bosom Of The Earth A Quality Of Beautiful Fertility.

The Artist Is Called A Creator.

All Bad Literature Rests Upon Imperfect Insight, Or Upon Imitation, Which May Be Defined As Seeing At Second-hand.

The Art Of Writing Is Not, As Many Seem To Imagine, The Art Of Bringing Fine Phrases Into Rhythmical Order, But The Art Of Placing Before The Reader Intelligible Symbols Of The Thoughts And Feelings In The Writer's Mind.

Science As We Now Understand The Word Is Of Later Birth. If Its Germinal Origin May Be Traced To The Early Period When Observation, Induction, And Deduction Were First Employed, Its Birth Must Be Referred To That Comparatively Recent Period When The Mind, Rejecting The Primitive Tendency To Seek In Supernatural Agencies For An Explanation Of All External Phenomena, Endeavoured, By A Systematic Investigation Of The Phenomena Themselves To Discover Their Invariable Order And Connection.