It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.