In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
My thoughts and I were of another world.
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.