Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.

The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done.