He loved sculpture, too, not only for its own beauty, but for the beautifying and intellectual effect that it produces wherever it is admitted.

It is a great mistake, he was wont to say, in collectors of statues, to arrange them _pele mele_ in one long monotonous gallery.

The single relief, or statue, or bust, or simple urn, introduced appropriately in the smallest apartment we inhabit, charms us infinitely more than those gigantic museums, crowded into rooms never entered but for show, and without a chill, uncomfortable shiver.

Besides, this practice of galleries, which the herd consider orthodox, places sculpture out of the patronage of the public.

There are not a dozen people who can afford galleries.