Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

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