Science Is The Systematic Classification Of Experience.

Murder, Like Talent, Seems Occasionally To Run In Families.

We Must Never Assume That Which Is Incapable Of Proof.

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.

Literature Is At Once The Cause And The Effect Of Social Progress. It Deepens Our Natural Sensibilities, And Strengthens By Exercise Our Intellectual Capacities. It Stores Up The Accumulated Experience Of The Race, Connecting Past And Present Into A Conscious Unity; And With This Store It Feeds Successive Generations, To Be Fed In Turn By Them.

It Is Always Understood As An Expression Of Condemnation When Anything In Literature Or Art Is Said To Be Done For Effect; And Yet To Produce An Effect Is The Aim And End Of Both.