Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

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

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

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.