To Quote Copiously And Well, Requires Taste,

Love Makes A Few Weeks So Rich That All The Rest Of Our Lives Seems Poor In Comparison.

It Is Difficult To Say Which Is The Greatest Evil--to Have Too Violent Passions, Or To Be Wholly Devoid Of Them. Controlled With Firmness, Guided By Discretion, And Hallowed By The Imagination, The Passions Are The Vivifiers And Quickeners Of Our Being. Without Passion There Can Be No Energy Of Character. Indeed, The Passions Are Like Fire, Useful In A Thousand Ways, And Dangerous Only In One--through Their Excess.

Genius Makes Its Observations In Short-hand; Talent Writes Them Out At Length.

Tis But A Short Journey Across The Isthmus Of Now.

In Art There Are Two Principal Schools Between Which Each Aspirant Has To Choose--one Distinguished By Its Close Adherence To Nature, And The Other By Its Strenuous Efforts To Get Above It.