The Public Can Only Be Really Moved

To One Man A Stream Is So Much Water-power, To Another A Rendezvous For Lovers.

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.

The Artist Is Called A Creator.

There Are Many Justifications Of Silence; There Can Be None Of Insincerity.

Among The Many Strange Servilities Mistaken For Pieties, One Of The Least Lovely Is That Which Hopes To Flatter God By Despising The World, And Vilifying Human Nature.