116 Quotes by George Henry Lewes

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

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

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

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

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.