He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.