The Arts Must Study Their Occasions; They

Even The Most Inspired Verse, Which Boasts Not Without A Relative Justification To Be Immortal, Becomes In The Course Of Ages A Scarcely Legible Hieroglyphic; The Language It Was Written In Dies, A Learned Education And An Imaginative Effort Are Requisite To Catch Even A Vestige Of Its Original Force. Nothing Is So Irrevocable As Mind.

Does The Thoughtful Man Suppose That...the Present Experiment In Civilization Is The Last World We Will See?

A Dream Is Always Simmering Below The Conventional Surface Of Speech And Reflection.

That Fear First Created The Gods Is Perhaps As True As Anything So Brief Could Be On So Great A Subject.

That Life Is Worth Living Is The Most Necessary Of Assumptions, And Were It Not Assumed, The Most Impossible Of Conclusions.