A good solid bit of work lasts.
Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.