Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?
We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.
The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.
The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.