The Highest Proof Of Civility Is That

Every Artist Was First An Amateur.

History - A Biography Of A Few Stout And Earnest Persons

In Our Fine Arts, Not Imitation, But Creation Is The Aim... The Details, The Prose Of Nature, He Should Omit, And Give Us Only The Spirit And Splendour.

Plato Is Philosophy, And Philosophy, Plato,--at Once The Glory And The Shame Of Mankind, Since Neither Saxon Nor Roman Have Availed To Add Any Idea To His Categories.

He Thought It Happier To Be Dead, To Die For Beauty, Than Live For Bread