116 Quotes by George Henry Lewes

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

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.

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

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

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.

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

The only cure for grief is action.