Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.
John Frederick BoyesWhere we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.
John Frederick BoyesStrict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.
John Frederick BoyesIt is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.
John Frederick Boyes