In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

One spares old people just as one spares children.

To a valet no man is a hero.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.