George Henry Lewes

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

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

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

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.