Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.