Am I right, or wrong?
Is not any one who refuses to follow in the footsteps left by the ancients of Athens as certain of condemnation as the convicted thief or murderer?
But I will not follow the lead of the Athenians, inimitably great though they are in their own way, because I would fain be more than the ancients of Ilissus: a disciple and an Alexandrian." "The never-ending dispute," Myrtilus answered his fellow-artist, with a cordiality in which, nevertheless, there was a slight accent of pity.
"Surely you know it, Daphne.

To me the ideal and its embodiment within the limits of the natural, according to the models of Phidias, Polycletus, and Myron is the highest goal, but he and his co-workers seek objects nearer at hand." "Or rather we found them," cried Hermon, interrupting his companion with angry positiveness.

"The city of Alexandria, which is growing with unprecedented vigour, is their home.

There, the place to which every race on earth sends a representative, the pulse of the whole world is throbbing.

There, whoever does not run with the rest is run over; there, but one thing is important--actual life.