All Good Literature Rests Primarily

Among The Many Strange Servilities Mistaken For Pieties, One Of The Least Lovely Is That Which Hopes To Flatter God By Despising The World, And Vilifying Human Nature.

The Delusions Of Self-love Cannot Be Prevented, But Intellectual Misconceptions As To The Means Of Achieving Success May Be Corrected.

Insincerity Is Always Weakness; Sincerity Even In Error Is Strength.

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.

"there Is One Basis Of Science," Says Descartes, "one Test And Rule Of Truth, Namely, That Whatever Is Clearly And Distinctly Conceived Is True." A Profound Psychological Mistake. It Is True Only Of Formal Logic, Wherein The Mind Never Quits The Sphere Of Its First Assumptions To Pass Out Into The Sphere Of Real Existences; No Sooner Does The Mind Pass From The Internal Order To The External Order, Than The Necessity Of Verifying The Strict Correspondence Between The Two Becomes Absolute. The Ideal Test Must Be Supplemented By The Real Test, To Suit The New Conditions Of The Problem.