"I for one (I am sure there are others) rail against the increasingly mediated world we live in, where experience come…"

"[E]ven though, like it or not, women occupy fifty percent of the human story genetically — I as a historian — I notic…"

"As a society we can tolerate questions when things are going well, but when things are going badly we want answers."

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"

"Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them."

"He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not fo…"

"Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the v…"