Art Must Anchor In Nature, Or It

Wonder At The First Sight Of Works Of Art May Be The Effect Of Ignorance And Novelty; But Real Admiration And Permanent Delight In Them Are The Growth Of Taste And Knowledge.

To-day Kings, To-marrow Beggars, It Is Only When They Are Themselves That They Are Nothing.

We Are Governed By Sympathy; And The Extent Of Our Sympathy Is Determined By That Of Our Sensibility

The Severest Critics Are Always Those Who Have Either Never Attempted, Or Who Have Failed In Original Composition.

The Best Way To Make Ourselves Agreeable To Others Is By Seeming To Think Them So. If We Appear Fully Sensible Of Their Good Qualities They Will Not Complain Of The Want Of Them In Us.