I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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