A Person Hears Only What They Understand.

Painting Predicates What Man Wants To See, And What Man Ought To See, Not What He Ordinarily Sees.

No Two Men See The World Exactly Alike, And Different Temperaments Will Apply In Different Ways A Principle That They Both Acknowledge. The Same Man Will, Indeed, Often See And Judge The Same Things Differently On Different Occasions: Early Convictions Must Give Way To More Mature Ones. Nevertheless, May Not The Opinions That A Man Holds And Expresses Withstand All Trials, If He Only Remains True To Himself And Others?

Upon The Creatures We Have Made, We Are, Ourselves, At Last, Dependent.

If One Has Not Read The Newspapers For Some Months And Then Reads Them All Together, One Sees, As One Never Saw Before, How Much Time Is Wasted With This Kind Of Literature.

First And Last, What Is Demanded Of Genius Is Love Of Truth.