"Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”

“Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.”

“The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.”

“Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.”

“But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.”

“In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.”

“The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.”

“It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.”

“Genius appeals to the future.”