James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. W. Winter
Art is noble, but the sanctuary of the human soul is nobler still. 1 Fate is character. 2 Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances. 3 Human judgment is finite, and it ought always to be charitable. 4 Poetry is the language of feeling. 5 Silence is the consummate eloquence of sorrow. 6 There is a better thing than the great man who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say. 7 There is no creature so lonely as the dweller in the intellect. 8
