Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
To know where a thing is we must have found it.
A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.