"He hasn't the remotest glimmering of an idea about Art."
"Not of the Fine Arts, but in the useful arts he is immense."
"He looks upon Italy as he would upon a field of stumps--a place to be cleared, broken up, brought under cultivation, and made productive."
"Yes, productive in cotton factories and Yankee notions."
"What in the world can keep up his reputation among the most poetic and least utilitarian people in the world?"
"There's the mystery!"
"The beauty of it is he goes as much with the English as with the Italians. Can he keep up his vernacular among them and still preserve the charm?"
"Well, whatever is the secret. I glory in it. I believe in him. He is a man. A more noble-hearted, sincere, upright, guileless soul never lived. Besides, he knows thoroughly what he has gone over."
"He is as generous a soul as ever lived."
"Yes, a stiff utilitarian in theory, but in practice an impulsive sentimentalist."