Art and science have their meeting point in method.

In science, address the few, in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgment on the few.

In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.