Robert Aris Willmott
Robert Aris WillmottThe Book is valuable even when the principles are diseased or deformed. It must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of science preserves monsters in glasses. They belong to the study of the mind’s morbid anatomy.
Memory is a synonym for invention in art. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound.
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.
