Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.