The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.