George Henry Lewes Quotes about Literature

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

Literature, Insight, Good Literature

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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

Hygiene, Progress, Literature

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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

Hands, Literature, May

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

Real, Literature, Bases

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

Hygiene, Literature, Objects

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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

Literature, World, Tidy

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”