The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.