Quotes By George Henry Lewes

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

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

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

Sincerity is moral truth.

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