Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
Great souls endure in silence.
Weep, for the light is dead.
Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.
I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.