Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many m...aterials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated ca...uses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no bo...ok. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendenci...es and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »