But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.