Just as Saul went out to look for his father’s she-asses and found a kingdom, so the essayist who is really capable of looking for the truth will find at the end of his road the goal he was looking for: life.
—LUKÁCS, Soul and Form

And in these books of mine, their distinctive character, as essays on art, is their bringing everything to a root in human passion or human hope.
—RUSKIN, Modern Painters