The Great Desire Of This Age Is

In Its Happiest Efforts, Translation Is But Approximation, And Its Efforts Are Not Often Happy. A Translation May Be Good As Translation, But It Cannot Be An Adequate Reproduction Of The Original.

No Man Ever Made A Great Discovery Without The Exercise Of The Imagination.

In The Air We Breathe, In The Water We Drink, In The Earth We Tread On, Life Is Every Where. Nature Lives: Every Pore Is Bursting With Life ; Every Death Is Only A New Birth, Every Grave A Cradle.

In Urging All Writers To Be Steadfast In Reliance On The Ultimate Victory Of Excellence, We Should No Less Strenuously Urge Upon Them To Beware Of The Intemperate Arrogance Which Attributes Failure To A Degraded Condition Of The Public Mind. The Instinct Which Leads The World To Worship Success Is Not Dangerous. The Book Which Succeeds Accomplishes Its Aim. The Book Which Fails May Have Many Excellencies, But They Must Have Been Misdirected.

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