The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.