Caroline de la Motte Fouqué

“ It is, indeed, scarcely possible to imagine two civilized countries, between which there is found a more striking difference in regard to language and moods of mind, than that which exists between Germany and modern England. ”

“ Doubtless, it must be allowed that our ideas, and to a certain extent our emotions, depend on the language in which they are to be conceived and embodied; and while in Great Britain one might almost say that intellectual energies are restrained by the strict conventional forms in which they are to be expressed,—in Germany, every nuance of thought can at once be seized and communicated ”

“ A connoisseur will fix his attention on these as willingly as on the largest gallery pictures of the same artist, while a mere soi-disant critic will treat them with disdain,—not recollecting, that to be fastidious is, in ninety-nine cases out of each hundred, no proof of taste, but of perceptions blunted and obtuse. ”