To generalize is to be an idiot.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?