But very moderately affluent gentlemen can afford a statue or a bust.

The influence, too, upon a man's mind and taste, created by the constant and habitual view of monuments of the only imperishable art which resorts to physical materials, is unspeakable.

Looking upon the Greek marble, we become acquainted, almost insensibly, with the character of the Greek life and literature.

That Aristides, that Genius of Death, that fragment of the unrivalled Psyche, are worth a thousand Scaligers! "Do you ever look at the Latin translation when you read Aeschylus ?" said a schoolboy once to Cleveland.
"That is my Latin translation," said Cleveland, pointing to the Laocoon.
The library opened at the extreme end to a small cabinet for curiosities and medals, which, still in a straight line, conducted to a long belvidere, terminating in a little circular summer-house, that, by a sudden wind of the lake below, hung perpendicularly over its transparent tide, and, seen from the distance, appeared almost suspended on air, so light were its slender columns and arching dome.

Another door from the library opened upon a corridor which conducted to the principal sleeping-chambers; the nearest door was that of Cleveland's private study communicating with his bedroom and dressing-closet.