Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.
He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
To generalize is to be an idiot.
If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.