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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

George Henry Lewes

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

George Henry Lewes

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

George Henry Lewes

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

George Henry Lewes

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

George Henry Lewes

Insight is the first condition of Art.

George Henry Lewes

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

George Henry Lewes

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

George Henry Lewes

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

George Henry Lewes

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

George Henry Lewes

Good writers are of necessity rare.

George Henry Lewes

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

George Henry Lewes

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.

George Henry Lewes

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

George Henry Lewes

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

George Henry Lewes