Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Sing it not in mournful numbers.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much