Walter Pater Quotes
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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.
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Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
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A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.