The greatest man since Christ’s time

There are of the most sublime and edifying photographs of a man that we have. We can only imagine what Shakespeare actually looked like
> And that the prevailing facial expression is the result of a long process of innumerable, fleeting and characteristic contractions of the features is just the reason why intellectual countenances are of gradual formation. It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.