Clear Quote by George Henry Lewes

Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use…

— 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

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

— George Henry Lewes

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

— George Henry Lewes

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

— George Henry Lewes

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities.…

— George Henry Lewes

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

The artist is called a creator...

— George Henry Lewes

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

— George Henry Lewes

The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of…

— George Henry Lewes

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

— George Henry Lewes