Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength..

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels..

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress..

Good writers are of necessity rare..

Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others..

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers..

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 d….

All great authors are seers..

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual….

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed..

Science is the systematic classification of experience..

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly a….

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument..

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism..

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 fix….

The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song..

Vehemence without feeling is but rant..

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination..

Science is not addressed to poets..

The only cure for grief is action..

Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have c….