A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.