The Thing I Fear Most Is Fear.

What Harm Cause Not Those Huge Draughts Or Pictures Which Wanton Youth With Chalk Or Coals Draw In Each Passage, Wall Or Stairs Of Our Great Houses, Whence A Cruel Contempt Of Our Natural Store Is Bred In Them?

One Man May Have Some Special Knowledge At First-hand About The Character Of A River Or A Spring, Who Otherwise Knows Only What Everyone Else Knows. Yet To Give Currency To This Shred Of Information, He Will Undertake To Write On The Whole Science Of Physics. From This Fault Many Great Troubles Spring.

A Man Has Need Of Tough Ears To Hear Himself Fairly Judged.

If I Were Of The Trade, I Should Naturalize Art As Much As They "artialize" Nature.

Oh These Foolish Men! They Could Not Create So Much As A Worm, But They Create Gods By The Dozens.