Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

A genuinely free and educated man should be able to tune himself, as one tunes a musical instrument, absolutely arbitrarily, at his convenience at any time and to any degree, philosophically or philologically, critically or poetically, historically or rhetorically, in ancient or modern form.