116 Quotes by George Henry Lewes

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

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

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

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

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

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.