By seeking and blundering we learn.
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.
As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.