"Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced."

"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art."

"The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men…"

"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a v…"

"What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions."

"Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass."

"Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed …"

"A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way…"

"To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people."

"Pater is a neglected author to-day. One can understand why. His mind is a little languid, his style a little mannered…"