Science is the systematic classification of experience.
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
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.
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
The only cure for grief is action.
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.
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
Science is not addressed to poets.
Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
Good writers are of necessity rare.
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
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.
All great authors are seers.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.
In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.
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