1. “The only cure for grief is action.”
2. “Science is systematic classification of experience.”
3. “All great authors are seers.”
4. “A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.”
5. “Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.”
6. “Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.”
7. “Character is built of circumstances. from exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.”
8. “No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.”
9. “Murder, like talent seems occasionally to run in families.”
10. “Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.”
11. “Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.”
12. “Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of other.”
13. “All good Literature rests primarily on insight.”
14. “No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of imagination.”
15. “The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.”
16. “Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.”
17. “Vehemence without feeling is but rant.”
18. “To write much and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done and not how you did it.”
19. “Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.”
20. “Literature at once the cause and effect of social progress.”
