Virchand Gandhi (1864–1901) Jain scholar who represented Jainism at the first World Parliament of Religions in 1893
Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York (1895)
“As when, O lady mine,
With chiseled touch
The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mold,
The more the marble wastes,
The more the statue grows.”
Sonnet addressed to Vittoria Colonna; tr. Mrs. Henry Roscoe (Maria Fletcher Roscoe), Vittoria Colonna: Her Life and Poems (1868), p. 169.
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John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
July 1890, page 320
John of the Mountains, 1938
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
“And the cold marble leapt to life a god.”
Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) English historian and churchman
The Belvedere Apollo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938) Poet, academic, literary critic
Emblems of Love (1912)
Context: And where is now that palace gone,
All the magical skill'd stone,
All the dreaming towers wrought
By Love as if no more than thought
The unresisting marble was?
How could such a wonder pass?
Ah, it was but built in vain
Against the stupid horns of Rome,
That pusht down into the common loam
The loveliness that shone in Spain.
But we have raised it up again!
A loftier palace, fairer far,
Is ours, and one that fears no war.
Safe in marvellous walls we are;
Wondering sense like builded fires,
High amazement of desires,
Delight and certainty of love,
Closing around, roofing above
Our unapproacht and perfect hour
Within the splendours of love's power.
Stephen Johnson Field (1816–1899) American politician
Concurring in Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust Co., 157 U. S. 429, 607 (1895).
