A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.